Tuesday, March 25, 2014

A Fort Building Kit for Kids! Fort Magic Review (and a Giveaway!)

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As always, all opinions expressed are my own.

When my friends at Fort Magic contacted my family to review one of their super awesome fort building kits,

I don't know who was more excited, the girls or me! I really do have the best job ever.

We love to build forts and I am frequently asked to sacrifice kitchen chairs, sofa cushions, hair bands, and clothespins for the tiny architects who live in my house! I'm all for imaginative play but it gets frustrating for me and the girls when they are asking to drag my chairs into the backyard or upstairs to the playroom so they can build their latest fort, castle, storefront, or emergency vet clinic!

Fort Magic solved this problem for my family by providing my two girls and all of their friends

with hours of imaginative play, right out of the box!

The box had all of the parts neatly sorted inside.

It even comes with a really cool, resealable bag to store all the bits and pieces in when you're done!

The kit includes:

* 165 Straight and Curved sticks in seven different sizes!

* 87 Connector pieces in five different shapes and sizes!

* 130 easy to use Fabric and Accessory Clips that securely fasten sheets or fabric to ANY shape or design your child invents with no sewing! ANY fort can have a perfectly customized cover every time they play!

* A full color, easy to read, instruction Manual with over 20 different designs to build!

* A high quality Storage Bag that holds all of the Fort Magic pieces - so clean up is quick and easy every time!

The girls worked together and were able to follow the simple instruction manual.

The book is filled with colorful and easy to understand photos --

both of my girls, my "tween" E and my beginning reader "C" were able to follow along.

It was great for the girls to work together and use their imaginations!

In the past two weeks, since our Fort Magic box first arrived,

my girls have spent two different weekends building backyard forts and multiple after-school indoor structures.

They love being able to set up play houses in our new (read:empty) backyard

that doesn't have any trees or landscaping yet!

This morning, the girls worked together to build their own emergency vet clinic

complete with a very realistic I.V. pole made from Fort Magic parts!

My 7 year old, C wants to run a wild animal rescue clinic when she grows up.

The poles clicked together to make a perfect IV pole for my little vet in training -

I thought the girls were so clever when they showed me this!

I see this new favorite toy becoming a classic in our house with years of play ahead of us!!

I think Fort Magic looks amazing! My girls would love it! I've checked out their website and I like their What's New section and just the overall website (explaining what it is and the things you can build). Very cool!

Love how this fosters so much good brain activity - reeading and following directions, engineering ones own designs, and of course all the great imaginative play. We have a similar kit from a different company but I really like the scale of the FM pieces.

Considering I'm currently down both kitchen stools, a kitchen chair, and all my chip clips, I'd love to have a set like this! My boys would love to build a fort big enough for all three of them to fit inside. I think the race car looks pretty cool too.

WOW!!! just love this - we have a fort system but it doesn't have fabric attachment, which is a real pain and is limited to straight designs, this looks easier to get together and love the curved options and fabric clips! awesome - would love to give it a try!

Oh my goodness that is AMAZING! And so perfect for my daughter's 5th birthday that is coming up! She LOVES building things, I think following the steps and instructions is her favorite part! Her big sister prefers to go to the beat of her own drum and tinker around on her own. Seriously, so cool- I can't believe all the fun forts you can build! Would love to win this one!

I am so excited to have the opportunity to win this for my family! I learned by visiting the website that the company really stands by it's product by offering a full warranty on all the kit parts and if such a problem would arise they ship a replacement free of charge!!!

My little guys would LOVE to have one of these. I remember forts as a kid at my grandparents house across their clotheslines. Being right on the prairie with snakes this would be AWESOME for our basement!

I visited the website and found out you can make cars and horses out of this, the possibilities are endless, what I would have done to have this to play with growing up. Thank you for this opportunity!!

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